Employee Bark Madness rules

Pick the number of the dog you believe is the cutest in the dropdown menu.

The first round of voting in the employee contest will take place until noon on March 18. The 16 dogs will then be seeded based on voting and paired off in a bracket. The dog with the most votes in the first round will be the No. 1 seed. He or she will go against the No. 16 seed. No. 2 will face No. 15 and so on.

Votes will be cleared for the second round, which ends at noon on March 22. The winners of each head-to-head matchup will advance to the Elite 8, and the votes will be cleared again.

The third round will end at noon on March 27 and will produce the Final Four.Voting will be cleared again, and the semifinal round will end at noon on April 2.The final two dogs will go head-to-head until noon on April 8. The winner will be announced at shreveporttimes.com. on April 8 at 6 p.m.